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School 9 of the Amazon Guardian Schools Network

From a workshop to a stall on the RamblaBegues, two school years running

Escola Sant Cristòfor is in Begues, in the Baix Llobregat, the same town where Associació Guardians de l’Amazònia has its registered office. It joined the Amazon Guardian Schools Network (the AGSN) in April 2025, with a workshop for the two Year 5 classes.

What sets this school apart is what happened after the workshop. Year 5A was running a school cooperative —they called it BioArt— as part of CuEmE (Entrepreneurial Culture at School), a programme of the Barcelona Provincial Council. The class decided to give its profits to the Escola Ixubãy Rabuī Puyanawa project, in Acre.

They set up a stall on the Rambla de Begues, sold copies of the storybook «Els Puyanawa i l’Eruga de colors» and raised €419. They handed the money over at the Teatre Goula, in front of their families, their teachers and the town council.

A year later, in April 2026, Adolf came back to the school with the accounts and the project report, and the two schools saw each other live for the first time. And in June 2026 the project reached Year 3A and 3B, with the short version of the workshop.

The school’s timeline

Two school years of work between Begues and the Puyanawa Indigenous Land, with two different classes.

  1. 21 April 2025 · Year 5A and 5B

    The workshop that opened the door

    Adolf Sanz visits the school and runs an awareness workshop with both Year 5 classes, with their teachers Núria and Marisol. He introduces the network, tells them about his own time in the Puyanawa village and finishes with a traditional dance. Fifty pupils take part.

  2. Spring 2025 · Year 5A

    The class decides who to help

    Year 5A runs a school cooperative, BioArt, within the CuEmE programme. After the workshop, they decide together that the cooperative’s profits will go to the Puyanawa school project. The decision is taken by the pupils, not by the staff.

  3. 6 June 2025 · Year 5A

    The stall on the Rambla

    With the support of Begues Town Council, the 25 pupils of Year 5A set up a charity stall on the Rambla and sell copies of the storybook «Els Puyanawa i l’Eruga de colors» for the Ixubãy 2.0 project.

  4. 17 June 2025

    The €419, at the Teatre Goula

    At the presentation of school projects at the Teatre Goula, organised by the town council and the school, Year 5A hands over the symbolic cheque for €419. The mayor of Begues attends, together with the councillors for Culture and Education, the school’s leadership team, the teachers and the families of the upper primary years.

  5. 27 April 2026

    The accounts first, the video call after

    Before connecting, Adolf goes through the accounts in the classroom: he shows the pupils, the teachers and Eva, the school’s coordinator, the financial report and the project report — what the money was spent on and what was done with it (the results, in the report). Then the video call opens with the Escola Ixubãy Rabuī Puyanawa, more than eight thousand kilometres away, and the two classrooms see each other and ask questions.

  6. 3 June 2026 · Year 3A and 3B

    The short version of the workshop

    The project reaches two new classes at the school with the short version of the workshop «Els Puyanawa i l’Eruga de colors – Hêda Cêkaya»: 45 minutes per class.

Where the €419 came from

CuEmE —Entrepreneurial Culture at School— is a programme of the Barcelona Provincial Council. Each class sets up a real school cooperative: it chooses a name, shares out the roles, makes or buys something, sells it at a local market and decides what to do with the profits.

Year 5A made up its mind after the April workshop. These were the steps:

  • They choose where it goes — the class votes for the profits to go to the Puyanawa school project.
  • They prepare the sale — in class they study what the Amazon is, who the Puyanawa are and why the school is needed.
  • They go out into the street — a stall on the Rambla de Begues, with the town council.
  • They account for it — they hand over the €419 in public, at the Teatre Goula.
  • They check what happened — the following year they receive the financial report and the project report, and speak live with the school that received the money.

That last step is what closes the circle. A class of eleven-year-olds is not usually shown the accounts of a project, and here they were shown: first the project’s accounts, and then the school their money went to.

And what was it spent on? The €419 went to the satellite connection of the Escola Ixubãy Rabuī Puyanawa: the dish that brings the internet to the school in Acre, and with it the online training sessions and the video calls with Begues. The results of phase 1, in the report.

Symbolic cheque for 419 euros made out to Guardians de l’Amazònia, signed in Begues on 17 June 2025, with the logos of Escola Sant Cristòfor, the BioArt cooperative, Begues Town Council, the Barcelona Provincial Council, the Department of Education and the CuEmE programme
The cheque Year 5A handed over at the Teatre Goula. The cooperative was called BioArt.

The workshop, step by step

The full session lasts 1 hour 30 minutes. In June 2026, in Begues, there were 45 minutes per class: the first half fitted in.

  1. Finding ourselves on the map — Catalonia, Brazil and the Amazon are located. In June, yes
  2. Listening first — the pupils close their eyes for a few minutes and listen to sounds of the rainforest. In June, yes
  3. The story — «Els Puyanawa i l’Eruga de colors – Hêda Cêkaya» is told, with the caterpillar’s message: life is connected, and what happens in one part of the web affects all the rest. In June, yes
  4. Who we are: materials and crafts — a short presentation of Guardians de l’Amazònia and the AGSN. The materials and crafts are presented as cultural objects with value and meaning. This is the moment of the feather crown. In June, yes
  5. «The circle that connects us» — each child receives an element of the web of life (water, river, tree, seed, bird, language, school…) and presents it in a circle; then the connections are found through movement. Left out
  6. Back to our own surroundings — which place in our own town helps us breathe better or feel part of nature. Left out
  7. Closing: traditional Puyanawa dance — as an expression of community, memory and connection with nature. Left out

The Year 5 classes of the previous year did do the full workshop, with the dance at the end. This is how the school put it in the report it gave the association:

«Aquesta actuació ha contribuït a reforçar els vincles entre la nostra escola i les comunitats indígenes de l’Amazònia.»

«This activity has helped to strengthen the ties between our school and the Indigenous communities of the Amazon.»

See the full workshop outline

In the report and on the web

Amazon Guardian Schools Network

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